A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.